Changes 12/11/13

Heading:

• http://appft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html has all the codes for searching specific fields of the applications 
• Created a basic python program to generate a search url and get the html.

• import urllib.request
  
  search = input("Insert your search terms: ")
  tag = input("Insert your tag: ")
  urlstring = "http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=0&p={{page}}&f=S&l=50&Query={{tag}}%2F%22{{query}}%22&d=PG01" 

  # Replace placeholder strings with actual input 

  urlstring = urlstring.replace('{{page}}', str(1)) 

  urlstring = urlstring.replace('{{tag}}', tag)

  urlstring = urlstring.replace('{{query}}', search.strip().replace(' ', '+'))

  print(urlstring)

  # Get raw html from the query url 

  response = urllib.request.urlopen(urlstring)
  html = response.read()
  print(html)

• So entering "National Science Foundation" for search and "GOVT" for tag generates a query identical to the example in the email